Name
Robert Flint Drake
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
17/11/1914
22
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
-
10th (Prince of Wales’s Own Royal) Hussars
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES TOWN CEMETERY
E2. 16
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
St Albans Citizens Memorial,
Town Hall (old) Memorial, St Albans,
St Michael's Church Memorial, St Albans,
Individual Plaque, St Michael's Church, St Albans
Pre War
Address given as Batchwood St Albans. Robert was the third son of J Ramsay Drake, of Batch Wood near St Albans and born 3oth April 1892.
He was educated at Eton and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was gazetted as 2nd Lieutenant in the 1oth Huzzars on 4th September 1912.
Wartime Service
Killed in action.
Acknowledgments
Gareth Hughes
